1. Cam WowPro
Technical - It is a really simple and effortless app. The app opens up with a 4 tile camera effect filter on your front camera and you can slide across to see the other effects. Theres no navigation or buttons at this point but when you click on one it just gives you a really simple and basic photo editor. I wanted to try find hue effects but this app doesn't do them.
Visual - There wasn't one really. It was just plain.
2. Pic Collage
Technical - This app was a nice app technically and visually. The technical style was an easy to navigate and function app. It tells you to tap to add photo or take one from camera then you can click again on the photo to either edit photo, edit border, clip it, set as background or copy it. You can arrange layouts of photos you have added to make a collage which is the point of the app. When editing the photo their is a toolbar on the bottom which you can slide across to chose tools to edit the photo whilst seeing the live effects.
Visual - The style looks bold and fun. It has a plain white colour scheme with grey colour elements on top of it to look clean, simplistic and emphasise colour elements of content on top of it. They use a turquoise green as their main primary colour.
After you have edited you can share the photo. By giving it a caption then either posting it to other social feeds like twitter, facebook, instagram etc. It has a nice button switch look to click what social feed to share. It looks nice and clean.
3. Photo Editor-
Technical - This app has a lot of tools to edit photos you can do so much to it. One of the tools that i really liked the idea of was the stickers tool. You can add in objects, scale and rotate them to put them on the photo. This is a fun and playful interaction of the app and its something Im going to consider in my app.
Visual - The app uses a black carbon look background with white elements on top. I really prefer this to a white background with black on top. I would use black anyway to carry on the Sourz ethos. As it is night club related it is dark with bright lights so it would be black with vibrant colours on.
This is the stickers function which is funny and playful interaction.
This is called a meme tool. You can add text on top or bottom of the picture to describe or demonstrate text reflecting the image to give a funny and entertaining effect. Im not sure if I would use this in my app, all though its funny and playful I think the visual style looks a bit tatty and cheesy, maybe too childish for a 18+ App.
4. BeFunky
Technical - I found this app really good to use. It has lots of positive things about it. Firstly the navigation and functionality is strong. Pretty much every similar app has the same layout. A left to right scroll bar down the bottom and maybe buttons at the top. There is a lot more tools to edit photos with than most apps
Visual - it has a black colour scheme like most of them with the white content on top of it, my preferred style.
One feature that I found and is really, really helpful for my idea is the hue function.You can change the colour of the skin levels in photos to a primary colour. As my idea is editing photos with colours of the Sourz flavours. This has inspired me to have my editing to photos by using hue. For example blue summer berries flavour would give a code to have the hue effect of blue like shown in the picture above. I think its different, playful and fun. Im really keen on this idea.
Also on be-funky is this homepage of icons which represent a certain type of photo. Which is nice. So each photo can have like a tag and you can find random photos of the tag you want to look at, it is irrelevant to my idea as all the photos taken on my app will be clubbing mug shots but the use of tagging is appealing, i could even have locations instead of like type of photo.
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